16 example sentences using subordinate.
Subordinate used in a sentence
Subordinate in a sentence as a noun
Not "subordinate as long as it's for the best overall.
Slimy is threatening to fire a subordinate if they won't date you.
Then a subordinate who knows more can be a threat to the career of the supervisor.
"I told Ira that story should always be subordinate to the truth, and I still believe that.
However it is often the case that they only really need 15h of hard work from each subordinate.
As soon as he acts like he isn't subordinate to them, they begin to feel that he's "management material".
Subordinate in a sentence as a verb
These people have 40 hours of things to do every week, or at least need 40 hours to properly instruct their subordinates.
I was giving feedback to a subordinate once a long time ago and the person replied "I'll take feedback if I think it's valid".
But if your leadership style depends on your subordinate's perception of your power, it says more about you than it does about your subordinate.
I actually think subordinate and peer references are far more useful than managerial ones: if you want to see someone's true character, ask people he had power over.
Because most organizations still want to have a hierarchy much like a Ford plant 100 years ago where the supervisor knew more and the subordinate was there mostly just to add muscle to the thoughts of the supervisor.
Dealing with humiliation afterward-- applying for subordinate roles for which I'm way overqualified, having to go through 47 goddamn phone screens for each company just to prove I'm not an idiot-- is harder.
Subordinate in a sentence as an adjective
When anybody calls up the Castle from here the instruments in all the subordinate departments ring, or rather they would all ring if practically all the departments -1 know it for a certainty - didn't leave their receivers off.
"Any time you instruct a subordinate, you must be \n prepared to deliver the same instruction every single\n time they perform that action, and expect it to be \n performed in that way until otherwise instructed.
It's often portrayed as an oppression brought in by deceptive, aggressive Boss Men; but I also think people willingly participate because it's a way to substitute mediocre/subordinate social acceptance for the much more intermittent reward/thrill of genuine work.
What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the newsthe issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life!
Subordinate definitions
an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
See also: subsidiary underling
a word that is more specific than a given word
See also: hyponym
rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools"
make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler"
See also: subdue
lower in rank or importance
See also: low-level
subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"
(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
See also: dependent